Do you know how to make it work as ftp web client? I tried without success... I want users to use their ftp users to login directly to their directories.

Thanks!

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It is pretty straight forward. Once you install you can setup a repository which is the user's chrooted path to the file system and create a user assigned to that repository. It'll work similar to web ftp. It's a really nice interface, etc. Give it a try and report back for others to read about. Let me know if you have any more questions.

EDIT: I haven't looked to see if it can be configured to utilize existing accounts on the system to authenticate users so worse case you might have to setup users with the same user/pass as their ftp accounts and just point them to their ftp root.

This will allow the user to login with his ftp user/pass directly to his home directory.

the problem is that, if the user writes a wrong user/password, it will login to ajax and will popup an error, but he will remain logued as the wrong user in ajax... I have to see how to workaround this...

In my opinion a webftp client like ajax explorer or net2ftp should stay a separate package like the webmail (roundcube, squirrelmail) and mysql (phpmyadmin) webclients. So each admin has the choice which FTP clients he wants to use and if he wants to use a webftp client at all.

If ajaxexplorer is a FTP client, it should be able to authenticate itself by FTP login like any other client?

It can be configured to be used just as a simple ftp web client if someone wants (as I posted), but with a few changes it can be integrated with ispconfig.

It is very easy to use, visually it is lot better than net2ftp, and... as ftp, it allows drag and drop from desktop, preview of files (images included), direct file editing with indented code (very usefull for php code editing without file downloading).

What I really liked is that I could point to any place on the servers's file system and lock a user into that repository. I wasn't restricted to just the ftp root for a user, etc. Really powerful, easy to use and looks great.

In my opinion a webftp client like ajax explorer or net2ftp should stay a separate package like the webmail (roundcube, squirrelmail) and mysql (phpmyadmin) webclients. So each admin has the choice which FTP clients he wants to use and if he wants to use a webftp client at all.

If ajaxexplorer is a FTP client, it should be able to authenticate itself by FTP login like any other client?

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This sounds like an interesting implementation actually.. Most panels out there have a file explorer built into it. I actually administer some cpanel servers, and I think many novices really like that feature that are hosted. I believe yes it should stay a separate package, but perhaps a configuration option in the System module for if its installed or not. If its installed & configured in the System module, then in the sites section, provide an icon link to automatically autoauth into for the account.

That would require to store the passwords in cleartext and I doubt that that will be a good idea.

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Perhaps there's a way to create a special auth module to work with this task?
Similar to how cpanel autoauths into phpmyadmin.. Which I believe we could easily create one for phpmyadmin looking at its auth documentation:

Thats very different from ftp, as phpmyadmin supports it to use a global mysql user for logging in and applying restrictions in a different way. So thats not comparable with FTP.

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I understand that.. Though from what I'm reading here, you can make authentication modules for this as well. Basically what I'm thinking, is that the actual ajaxexplorer could be on the remote server in a multi-server setup. And then do API call back to remote authenticate the connection with ISPConfig.... Haven't dove into it too much, though even it can't be done exactly like that, I'm sure there would be another way to do it nicely.

I have another big project I need to hit up soon.... But if no one tackles it, I'll probably look at this ajaxexplorer, and integrating other remote auth methods (particularly phpmyadmin) in the future with ISPConfig.